Building Blocks to Peer Success: Training HIV-Positive Peers to Engage PLWHIV in Care

Building Blocks to Peer Success: Training HIV-Positive Peers to Engage PLWHIV in Care

April 2009

Author:

Boston University School of Public Health, Health and Disability Working Group

HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau

Toolkit to assist trainers and program directors in planning a peer training program for HIV-positive peers who work to engage and retain people living with HIV/AIDS in health care. Sections include:

Main toolkit sections are: Introduction; Using the toolkit to design a training; Facilitation Skills; Training Modules; Training Evaluation; and Appendices.

Toolkit Modules go into depth on key topics and serve as standalone training tools. They include core competencies for peer training (HIV/AIDS, communications skills, peer role, and putting it all together/jeopardy interactive training covering all of the above core competencies); activities; continuing education; and case studies/scenarios.

See the companion Building Blocksto Peer Program Success: A Toolkit for Developing HIV Peer Programs, which offers resources for agencies seeking to develop programs that utilize peers to help engage and retain other people living with HIV/AIDS in care.